June 6 to All Souls at Sundown:

Regina Carter, violin

Regina Carter is on a mission: to make a meaningful musical contribution and do it on her own terms. Over the past three years, Carter and her quintet have brought audiences to their feet with exhilarating performances worldwide.

She has won acclaim for her solos on Wynton Marsalis’ Blood on the Fields tour in 1997 and Cassandra Wilson’s Travelin’ Miles concert at New York’s Lincoln Center in 1998. Her early musical experiences in her hometown of Detroit, as well as her membership in the Detroit Civic Symphony Orchestra and the pop funk group Brainstorm, provided the experience she needed to record with artists ranging from pop icons Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle to some of the new divas in the R&B arena, including Mary J. Blige and Lauryn Hill.

Regina has four discs under her own name: Regina Carter (Atlantic, 1995), Something for Grace (Atlantic, 1997), Rhythms of the Heart (Verve-Universal, 1999) and Motor City Moments (Verve, 2000). Freefall, a collaboration with pianist Kenny Barron, was released in spring 2001.